As God the Lord of Israel liveth, 
  before Whom I stand;
  there shall not be dew nor rain these years,
  nay, neither dew nor rain, 
  but according to my word.
		

(Representing the three years of famine)
		

Help, Lord! wilt Thou utterly destroy us? 
The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone, 
  and yet there comes no power to save us! 
Will then the Lord be no more God in Zion?
		

The deep affords no water, and the rivers are exhausted! 
The tongue of the nurseling cleaves to the roof of his mouth: 
  the infant children ask for bread, 
  and there is no one breaketh it to feed them!
		

Lord! bow Thine ear to our prayer! 
		

Zion spreadeth her hands for aid; 
  but there is no one to give comfort.
		

Ye people, rend your hearts, and not your garments, 
  for your transgressions the Prophet Elijah 
  hath seal'd the heavens through the word of God. 
I therefore say to you: Forsake your idols, return to God; 
  for He is slow to anger, and merciful, 
  and kind and gracious, and grieveth that He must punish.
		

"If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me, 
  ye shall ever surely find Me."
Thus saith our God. 
Oh! that I knew where I might find Him, 
  that I might even come before His presence.
		

Yet doth the Lord see it not: He mocketh at us; 
  His curse hath fallen down upon us; 
  His wrath will pursue us, 'til He destroy us! 
		

For He, the Lord our God, He is a jealous God: 
  and He visits the fathers' iniquities on the children 
  to the third and the fourth generation of them that hate Him. 
but showeth His boundless love to all the hosts of them
  that do love Him, and keep His commandments.
		

Elijah! get thee hence, Elijah; 
  Go now and turn thee eastward, and hide thee by Cherith's brook. 
There shalt thou drink its waters; and the Lord thy God 
  hath commanded that the ravens there shall feed thee: 
do thou according to His word.
		

For He shall give His angels to watch over thee; 
  that they guard and keep thee in all ways thou goest; 
In their hands they shall lift and bear thee, 
  lest thy foot should stumble against a stone and dash thee.
		

Now Cherith's brook drieth up, 
Elijah, arise and depart, 
  and get thee to Zarephath; and dwell there awhile: 
  for the Lord hath commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 
And her barrel of meal shall not empty, 
  nor her cruse of oil fail her, 
  until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
		

What have I to do with thee, O man of God? 
  art thou come to me to call my sin unto remembrance? 
  Hast thou come here to slay my son? 
Help me, man of God! my son is sick! 
  and his sickness is so sore, 
  that he hath no breath left in him! 
I, weary with all my weeping, 
  I water my couch with tears!
See mine affliction, O thou the orphan's helper! 
  Help my son! there is no breath left in him! 
		

Give me thy son. 

Lord my God, O hear my pray'r; Turn unto her!
  For Thou art gracious, and look, O Lord, upon her son, 
  in mercy help this widow's son! 
For Thou art gracious, and full of compassion, 
  and plenteous in goodness and mercy. 
Lord, my God, let now the soul of this child 
  come once again into him! 
		

Canst thou, ev'n unto the dead, His wonders show?
  There is no breath in him.
Shall the dead arise, arise to thank and praise Him?
		

Lord, my God, let now the soul of this child 
  come into him again! 
		

The Lord, thy God hath heard thee, 
  the soul of my son reviveth!
		

Lo!  Behold!  Thy son liveth! 
		

Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, 
  and that His word in thy mouth is the truth. 
What shall I render to the Lord 
  for all his blessings unto me?
		

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, love Him with all thine heart, 
  and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 
O blessed are they that fear Him!
		

Blessed are all they that fear Him, 
  they who delight to do His will.
Through darkness riseth light to shine on the upright,
  for the merciful, the compassionate; and the righteous.
		

As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth, 
  before Whom I stand,  three years this day are ended, 
I will show myself unto Ahab; 
  and the Lord will then send rain again upon the earth.
		

Art thou Elijah? art thou he that troubleth Israel? 
		

Thou art Elijah, thou he that troubleth Israel!
		

I never troubled Israel's peace: 
  it is thou, Ahab, and all thy father's house. 
  Ye have forsaken God's commands 
  and thou hast followed after Baal! 
Now send and gather to me 
  the whole of Israel unto Mount Carmel: 
  there summon the prophets of Baal, 
  and also the prophets of the groves, 
  who are feasted at Jezebel's table. 
Then we shall see whose God is the Lord.
		

And then we shall see whose God is God the Lord.
		

Rise then, ye priests of Baal; 
  select and slay a bullock, and put no fire under it; 
And call ye first on the name of your gods; 
  and then I will call on the Lord Jehovah: 
  and the God who shall answer us by the fire, he is God.
		

Yea, and the God who shall answer us by the fire, he is God.
		

Call first upon your god: your numbers are many;
  I, even I, only remain, one prophet of the Lord! 
  Invoke your forest-gods and mountain-deities.
		

Baal, O answer us; O hear and answer us! 
Turn O Baal, behold our off'ring; Baal O hear us and answer us!
Hear us, Baal! Hear, mighty god!  Baal, O answer us! 
Send down thy flames Baal and devour the foe! 
		

Call him louder, for he is a god! 
  He talketh; or he is pursuing; 
  or he is on a journey; or, peradventure, he sleepeth; 
  so awaken him: call him louder.
		

Hear our cry, O Baal! now arise! wherefore slumber?
		

Call him louder! he heareth not.
  With knives and lancets cut yourselves after your manner: 
Leap upon the altar ye have made: call him and prophesy! 
  Not a voice will answer you: none will listen, none heed you.
		

Baal! Give an answer, Baal! 
  Mark! how the scorner derideth us! Give an answer, Baal!
		

Draw near, all ye people: come to me!
		

Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! this day let it be known 
  that Thou art God; and I am Thy servant! O show to all this people 
  that I have done these things according to Thy word! 
O hear me Lord, and answer me!
  and show this people that Thou art Lord God; 
  and turn their hearts again O Lord to Thee!		
		

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, 
  and He shall sustain thee. 
  He never will suffer the righteous to fall.
For He is at thy right hand. 
Thy mercy, Lord, is great; and far above the heavens. 
No man who hopes in Thee shall e'er be put to shame!
		

O Thou, Who makest Thine angels spirits; 
  Thou, Whose ministers are flaming fires, 
  send Thy fire from Heav'n!  
		

The fire falls from heaven! 
  The flames consume His offering! 
Bow down, upon your faces fall! 
  The Lord is God, the Lord is God, the Lord is our God!
He alone is the Lord; 
and we will have no other Gods before Him!  
		

Take all the prophets of Baal; 
  and let not one of them escape you: 
  bring them down to Kishon's brook, 
  and there let them be slain.
		

Take all the prophets of Baal; 
  and let not one of them escape us: 
  seize them, and slay them!
		

Is not His word like a fire? 
  And like a hammer that breaketh the rock into pieces? 
For God is angry with the wicked every day: 
and if the wicked turn not, the Lord will whet His sword; 
  and He hath bent His bow, He's ready, God's ready!
		

Woe unto them who forsake Him! 
  Destruction shall fall upon them, 
  for they are transgressors against Him. 
  He sought only to redeem them, 
  yet they have spoken falsely against Him, 
  yet they hear it not.
		

O man of God, help thy people! Among the idols of the Gentiles, 
  are there any that can command the rain, 
  or cause the heavens to give their showers? 
  The Lord our God alone can do these things.

O Lord, Thou hast overthrown Thine enemies and slain them! 
Look down on us from heaven, O Lord; 
  and see the distress of Thy people!
  Open the heavens and send us relief! 
  Help, send Thy servant, O Thou, my God!

Open the heavens and send us relief! 
  Help, send Thy servant, O Thou, my God!

Go up now, child, and look towards the sea. 
  Hath my prayer been heard by the Lord?

There is nothing. 
The heavens are as brass, they are as brass above me.

When the heavens are closed, O Lord, 
  because thy people have sinned against Thee; 
  if they now repent and with pray'r confess Thy Name, 
  and turn from sin when Thou dost rebuke them: 
Canst Thou from heaven forgive their sin; 
  Help! send Thy servant, O Thou, my God!

O hear from heaven and forgive their sin; 
  Help! send Thy servant, O Thou, my God!

Go up again, and still look towards the sea.
		

There is nothing. 
The earth is as iron under me!

Hearest thou no sound of rain? 
  See'st thou nothing arise from the deep?

No; there is nothing.
		

Hearken Thou to the pray'r of Thy servant, 
  O my God! Lord, O Lord my God!
  Unto Thee I will cry, Lord, my rock; 
  be not silent to me; and Thy great mercies remember, Lord!

Behold, a little cloud ariseth now from the waters; 
  it is like a man's hand! 
The heavens are black with clouds and with wind: 
  the storm rusheth louder and louder!

Thanks be to God, for all His mercies!

Thanks be to God, for He is gracious, 
  and His Mercy endureth for evermore!
  		

Thanks be to God! 
He reviveth the thirsty land! 
  The waters gather, they rush along; 
  they are lifting their voices! 
The stormy billows are high, their fury is mighty. 
  But the Lord is above them, and Almighty!
		

 Hear ye, Israel; hear what the Lord speaketh: 
"Oh, had'st thou heeded My commandments!"
   Who hath believed our report: 
   to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, 
   to His Holy One, to him oppressed by Tyrants: 
"I am He that comforteth; fear thee not, 
   for I am Thy god, I will strengthen thee. 
 Say, who art thou, that thou art afraid of a man that shall die; 
   and forgettest the Lord, 'tis He that hath made thee, 
   that hath Open'd wide the heavens, 
   and laid the earth's foundations?"
		

Be not afraid, saith God the Lord. 
  I am with thee, thy help is near.
  For I am thy God, and I will strengthen thee.
Though thousands languish and fall beside thee, 
  and tens of thousands are fallen 'round thee,
  yet never shall it come nigh thee.  
		

The Lord hath exalted thee from among the people: 
  and He hath made thee to be King o'er all of Israel. 
But thou, Ahab, hast done evil to provoke Him 
  to anger above all that were before thee: 
as if it had been a light thing 
  for thee to walk in the sins of Jeroboam. 
For thou hast made a grove and an altar to Baal, 
  and worshipped and served him. 
Thou hast kill'd the righteous, and also taken their possessions. 
And the Lord shall smite all Israel, 
  as a reed is shaken in the water; 
  and uproot Israel from this good land,
  because of all their sins.  

Have ye not heard he hath prophesied against all Israel?

Yea, heard with our own ears.

Hath he not prophesied also against the King?

Yea, heard with our own ears.

And why hath he spoken in the name of the Lord? 
Doth Ahab govern the kingdom of Israel 
  while Elijah's pow'r is greater than the King's? 
The gods do so to me, and more, if by tomorrow about this time, 
  I make not his life as the life of one of them 
  whom he hath sacrificed at the brook of Kishon!

He shall perish!

Hath he not slaughter'd Baal's prophets?
  Yea, with a sword he hath slain them all!
He also clos'd the heavens,
and calld' down a famine upon the land.
So go ye forth and take Elijah, he is worthy to die; 
  slay him! do unto him as he hath done!

Woe to him!  Take and slay him, he call'd down a famine upon us!
And why doth he mock us in the name of his Lord?
Death unto the guilty prophet! 
He hath spoken falsely against our land, 
  as we with our own ears have heard. 
So go ye forth; seize on him! He shall die! 
		

Man of God, now let my words be precious in thy sight. 
Thus saith Jezebel: "Elijah is worthy to die."
So the mighty have gather'd against thee, 
and they have prepared a net for thy steps; 
  that they may seize thee, that they may slay thee. 
Arise, then, and hasten for thy life; 
  to the wilderness journey. 
The Lord thy God doth ever go with thee: 
  He will not fail thee, nor will He forsake thee. 
Now begone, but first thy blessing,
  now begone, but bless us also.

Though stricken, they have not repented! 
Tarry here, my servant: the Lord be with thee. 
I journey hence to the wilderness.
  		

It is enough; O Lord, now take away my life 
  for I am not better than my fathers! 
I desire to live no longer; 
  for my days are as nothing but vanity! 
I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts! 
  for the children of Israel have broken Thy covenant, 
  have thrown down thine altars 
  and slain all Thy prophets - slain them with the sword: 
  and I, even I, only am left; 
  and they seek my life to take it away.
		

See, now he sleepeth 
  beneath a juniper tree in the wilderness!
And there the angels of the Lord encamp 
  'round about all them that fear Him.  
		

Lift thine eyes to the mountains, 
  from whence thy help cometh. 
Thy help cometh from the Lord, 
  the Maker of heaven and earth. 
He hath said, thy foot shall not be mov'd: 
  thy Keeper will never slumber.

He, watching over Israel, 
  slumbers not, nor sleeps. 
Shouldst thou, walking in grief, languish, 
  He will quicken thee.
		

Arise, Elijah, for thou hast a long journey before thee. 
Forty days and forty nights shalt thou go 
  to Horeb, the mount of God.  
		

O Lord, I have labored in vain; 
  yea, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain! 
O that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst come down; 
  that the mountains would flow down at Thy presence, 
to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, 
  through the wonders of Thy works! 
O Lord, why hast Thou made them to err from Thy ways, 
  and hardened their hearts that they do not fear Thee? 
O that I now might die!

O rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him, 
then He shall give thee thy heart's desires. 
Commit thy ways unto Him, and trust in Him, 
fret not thyself with anger and forsake wrath.
		

He that shall endure to the end, God will save him.
		

Night falleth round me, O Lord! Be not Thou far from me! 
Hide not Thy face, O Lord, from me; 
my soul is thirsting for Thee, as a thirsty land.

Arise, now! And go ye forth! 
Stand on the mount before the Lord; 
  for there His glory will appear and shine on thee! 
Hide thy face in thy mantle, for He draweth near.

Behold! God the Lord passed by! 
  And a mighty wind rent the mountains around, 
    brake in pieces the rocks, brake them before the Lord: 
    but yet the Lord was not in the tempest. 
  And the ocean trembled, and the earth was shaken: 
    but yet the Lord was not in the earthquake. 
And after the earthquake there came a fire: 
    but yet the Lord was not in the fire. 
  And after the fire there came a still small voice 
    and in that still voice, onward came the Lord.
		

Above Him stood the Seraphim, and one cried to another: 
		

Holy, holy, holy, is God the Lord - the Lord God of Sabaoth! 
  Earth is full of the glory of the Lord!
		

Go, return upon thy way! thus the Lord commandeth.
For the Lord yet hath left Him seven thousand in Israel, 
  which have not bow'd to Baal.

I go on my way in the strength of the Lord. 
For Thou art my Lord; and I will suffer for Thy sake. 
My heart is therefore glad, my glory rejoiceth, 
  and my flesh shall also rest in hope.

Though the mountains shall depart, 
  and the hills be shaken and pass away; 
  still Thy kindness shall ne'er depart from me, 
  neither shall the covenant of Thy peace be broken.
		

Thus did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire; 
  his words like brimstone and blazing torches. 
Mighty kings by him were overthrown. 
He stood on the mount at Sinai, 
  and heard the Lord's denunciation,
  and on Horeb, His vengeance. 
And when the Lord would take him away to heaven, 
  lo! there came a fiery chariot, with fiery horses; 
  and he went by a whirlwind to heaven.
		

Then shall the righteous shine forth 
  as the sun in their heavenly Father's realm. 
Joy on their head shall be for everlasting, 
  and all sorrow and mourning shall flee away forever.
		

For God sent His people the prophet Elijah, before the coming 
  of the great and dreadful day of the Lord,
that he might turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, 
  and the hearts of the children unto their fathers; 
  lest the Lord should come and smite the earth with a curse.
		

For the Lord hath raised up one from the north, 
  who, from the rising of the sun did call on His Name,
  call upon the Name of the Lord and prophesy, 
  call upon His Name and trample over princes. 
Behold His servant, whom He upholds, and His elect, 
  in whom His soul delighteth! The spirit of God doth rest on him: 
the spirit of wisdom and understanding, 
  the spirit of counsel and of might, 
  the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

O come, everyone that thirsteth, 
  O come to the waters: O come unto Him. 
Incline your ear, and come to Him,
  new life to your soul restoring.
		

And then shall your light break forth as the light of morning; 
  and your health shall speedily spring forth in you; 
  and the glory of the Lord evermore shall guard and keep you. 
Lord, our Creator, 
  how excellent Thy name is in all the nations! 
  Thou fillest heav'n with Thy glory! 
Amen.